Wish they were cheaper, but it's one of my all-time favorite shows and they ain't flippers!

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Glad to hear it!

"CBS Sports presents...The Prudential College Football Report, sponsored by The Prudential, offering a full range of insurance and other financial services. The Prudential: the Rock...it's strong, it's on the move, it's bigger than life."

(Don Robertson's opening from The Prudential College Football Report in the 1986 season, modified from what it was in 1985, in that "other financial services" was said instead of just "financial services")

I wouldn't know how to tell the difference between flippers, but I didn't keep the set anyway. Once I saw they were double-sided I ditched them, since I already had a set that I knew worked fine. A flipper in the hand is worth two in the bush, or something like that.

On the canada amazon listings, they assert that the MTM set will have 23 discs and the Reba set will have 18 discs.

If the 23-discs count of the MTM complete series set is reliable, this would imply the season 2 discs are single sided where the lone flipper disc's sides are split into two discs. IIRC for the original MTM season sets releases:

The 18-discs count of the Reba complete series set is somewhat harder to decipher. IIRC the original Reba season sets were all done as double-sided flipper discs, where the original flipper disc counts were:

One way for this Reba complete series 18-discs count to make sense, would be if the DVD14 flipper discs of seasons 5 and 6 were all split apart into single-sided discs.

From what I remember of the old dvd10 flipper discs of Reba seasons 1 to 4, there was enough content on each dvd10 flipper disc which could in principle fit onto a single-sided dvd9 disc. Though this is assuming Fox has any intentions of reauthoring the season 1 to 4 sets into single-side discs, which is currently unknown.

If they are doubles, they're probably touching each other on each playable side.

"CBS Sports presents...The Prudential College Football Report, sponsored by The Prudential, offering a full range of insurance and other financial services. The Prudential: the Rock...it's strong, it's on the move, it's bigger than life."

(Don Robertson's opening from The Prudential College Football Report in the 1986 season, modified from what it was in 1985, in that "other financial services" was said instead of just "financial services")

That's great news! Thanks for confirming. Another flipper bites the dust!

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This was only "disc 3" (ie. the former "disc3A") from season 2 of MTM, which I was able to observe. I was not able to directly observe "disc 4" (the former "disc3B") of season 2.

The spindles in the giant digipak case, each had two discs stacked on top of one another. If "disc 4" of season 2 was also present, then it would have been underneath the "disc 3". As far as I could see by a small peek, there appeared to be two discs thick on the spindle which had "disc 3" on top.

I bought the MTM complete series set and can confirm that disc 3a/3b is now discs 3 and 4. The last 8 episodes of season 2 are on disc 3 and the bonus material is on disc 4.

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That's right on the money with how I thought it would be! Thanks for the confirmation.

"CBS Sports presents...The Prudential College Football Report, sponsored by The Prudential, offering a full range of insurance and other financial services. The Prudential: the Rock...it's strong, it's on the move, it's bigger than life."

(Don Robertson's opening from The Prudential College Football Report in the 1986 season, modified from what it was in 1985, in that "other financial services" was said instead of just "financial services")

The 18-discs count of the Reba complete series set is somewhat harder to decipher.

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One way for this Reba complete series 18-discs count to make sense, would be if the DVD14 flipper discs of seasons 5 and 6 were all split apart into single-sided discs.

From what I remember of the old dvd10 flipper discs of Reba seasons 1 to 4, there was enough content on each dvd10 flipper disc which could in principle fit onto a single-sided dvd9 disc. Though this is assuming Fox has any intentions of reauthoring the season 1 to 4 sets into single-side discs, which is currently unknown.

To be more specific, season 5 originally had two dvd14 flippers and season 6 had one dvd14 flipper. If one replicated all the flipper sides of these three dvd14 flippers into single-sided discs, one would get six single-sided discs,

Have discovered just earlier what the new version of the Magnum all-in-one from Universal looks like inside; it is packaged practically the same as my copy of CBS' all-in-one of The Streets of San Francisco (and while Streets used one case like that for a five-season series, Magnum is like that in both of its cases, apparently).

"CBS Sports presents...The Prudential College Football Report, sponsored by The Prudential, offering a full range of insurance and other financial services. The Prudential: the Rock...it's strong, it's on the move, it's bigger than life."

(Don Robertson's opening from The Prudential College Football Report in the 1986 season, modified from what it was in 1985, in that "other financial services" was said instead of just "financial services")

Have discovered just earlier what the new version of the Magnum all-in-one from Universal looks like inside; it is packaged practically the same as my copy of CBS' all-in-one of The Streets of San Francisco (and while Streets used one case like that for a five-season series, Magnum is like that in both of its cases, apparently).

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Probably also done for the upcoming The A-Team complete series set being released on February 5, 2019.